Re: Tails 6.13 is out

Anonymous <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Mar 2025 02:08:07 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.privacy,alt.anonymous
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>
"_" <_@_._> wrote:
>
> On 06 Mar 2025, Anonymous <[email protected]> posted some
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > In article <[email protected]>
> > Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://tails.net/latest/index.en.html
> >
> > Nice, too bad the ISO torrent has been stalled for a few hours, sitting
> > at 99.9%.
>
> The tails-amd64-6.13.iso in the torrent is intact and okay.  I renamed the
> torrent .ISO to _INC_* thinking it was borked at first.
>
> I snagged the direct download tails-amd64-6.13.iso to compare.
>
> fc _INC_tails-amd64-6.13.iso tails-amd64-6.13.iso
> Comparing files _INC_tails-amd64-6.13.iso and TAILS-AMD64-6.13.ISO
> FC: no differences encountered
>
> ->> Test the stalled torrent .ISO download using the Tails site. <<-
>
> https://tails.net/install/download-iso/index.en.html
>
> 2/3 Verify your download
> Verify your download to make sure that it is safe and was not corrupted
> during download.
>
> Verification successful! (_INC_tails-amd64-6.13.iso)
>
> What has happened is the dummy who created the torrent omitted two files
> so the torrent appears incomplete and it will never finish.
>
> The two files below are missing from the torrent and will never download
> so it appears to never finish remaining stuck at 99.9%.
>
> tails-amd64-6.13.iso -> Present, complete, passes verification.
> tails-amd64-6.13.iso.asc -> Not present and will never D/L.
> tails-amd64-6.13.iso.sig -> Not present and will never D/L.

Thanks for the info.